Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Charles Caleb Colton

Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

Alanis Morissette

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Alan Watts

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Moore

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Robin Cook

We want the peace talks to resume on all tracks as soon as possible,

Chip Conley

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

Chip Conley

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

Chester W. Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Carl Sagan

It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

Byron Katie

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

Byron Katie

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Byron Katie

My experience is the opposite.

Byron Katie

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

Carter Heyward

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

Carlos Santana

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

Carlos Santana

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Catherine the Great

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

We still want to resolve this peacefully. That's where we stand at this point.

William Shakespeare

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Kurt Vonnegut

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

Charles Lindbergh

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Charles Lindbergh

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

Ed Asner

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

David Hume

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Benazir Bhutto

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.